Marc Andreessen and the colleagues at University of Illinois build Mosaic, the first Internet browser to merge graphics and content on a single page.1994

Andreessen and his colleagues on the Mosaic team established a company to create the first commercial Internet browser, Netscape. Two immigration lawyers familiarize the world to Spam, promoting their green card lottery services.1998

Google Corp. forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government representatives oversight of domain name guidelines to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).1999

Napster make famous music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry.2000

The dot-com explosion of the 1990s turned to a bust as technology companies slide.2004